About Jade Sanchez-Ventura
Jade Sanchez-Ventura
Jade Sanchez-Ventura is a writer and radical educator. Her writing often tackles themes of mixed-race identity formation, female love and sexuality, finding home, motherhood as a social justice issue, and feminist, sex-positive, romantic partnership. Her essays have been published by Seal Press, Slice Literary Magazine, Huffington Post, Kweli Journal, Duende, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, The Establishment, and others. She has been featured on the Bitch Media Popaganda podcast, and awarded by the Mendocino Coast Writer’s Conference, Slice Literary Conference, and Disquiet International Literary Conference. She is the recipient of residencies with the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow and Garden House and is a Hertog fellow. She is a series contributor with MUTHA Magazine. She recently finished writing a literary memoir, Not a Fine Woman. As an educator, she believes a commitment to racial equity and social justice are essential to the practice of teaching and spent twelve years studying and implementing this pedagogical approach with the Brooklyn Free School, an urban democratic free school. She now serves on the leadership team of the Brooklyn Free School Institute and on the Brooklyn Free School Board of Trustees. Though she has kin around the world, she grew up in Brooklyn, New York where she continues to make her home. She is a parent of two, and a devoted surfer of very small waves.
Author photo (c) Ro Agents-Juska
February 20th, 2025 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
Be wary
June 25th, 2024 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
I sat on a long subway ride from my borough of Brooklyn to Emily Raboteau’s home in the Bronx, crying
November 3rd, 2022 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
Crying seems the most natural of responses to these last years in pandemic and global disruption. So why hadn’t I done more of it
May 11th, 2020 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
When my partner came home that night I told him, “Whether we go or not, something has to change. I’m not going to make it.”
March 25th, 2020 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
I hope my body unlearns the requirements of social distancing.
March 21st, 2020 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
Fuck, these are scary days.
March 9th, 2018 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
When I was in high school, I had an earlier curfew than all my friends. When I got back to
September 15th, 2017 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
I woke up happy with the weight of work that’d been on me for the last month lifted for no
February 28th, 2017 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
My son has found words. Every day there are new ones. Hat, which is hair (and hat and socks). How,
December 2nd, 2016 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
The summer I turned sixteen I experienced two momentous events. I had sex for the first time, and I left